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The Gilberts
'HE Gilbert & Ellice Is. Colony Depart ment of Information, in a survey of igress made in the Colony daring 1954, ntions the following construction work: Completion of King George V Secondary 100 l to take up to 150 boy boarders, sated at Bikenibeu, Tarawa, the school s built under a Colonial Development nt. fork commenced and is now in full swing a new central hospital, located near [ school. Built under a similar grant, hospital will become an important ining centre for nurses and dressers, ently needed in the outer islands, i new Residency was completed, and a nber of new permanent staff buildings being built at Bairiki, Tarawa. .t Betio, Tarawa, a new District Office I completed and the DO has shifted his dquarters from Bairiki. Erection of [sing for District staff is in progress. * * * t is expected that a new Land linance will be enacted this year, iwing considerable work by a Native ds Commission last year. The new inance will introduce a greater degree standardisation of land laws through the Colony, based on the recommenda s of the Island magistrates. The in ising interest in land ownership makes new legislation of great importance. * * * reater responsibility and authority to 1 governments throughout the Colony probable as the result of recent dis iions at Tarawa and Honiara. The ive Governments Ordinance is likely ?e amended soon. * * * tie Ramage Report of salaries revision low being considered by the Govern t with a view to possible improvements salaries and conditions of service of lie servants in the Colony. * * * line with most other South Pacific Itories, plans are being made for the tment within the Colony of most s of leprosy, instead of sending the ents to Makogai, Fiji. New drugs - rendered possible this local treatment all but a few cases. (Eastern and tern Samoa, Tonga, and the Cook ids have taken similar action). * * * ie Rev. Mr. Spivey and Mrs. Spivey, the London Missionary Society, have the Colony after many years’ service.
Spivey is succeeded by the Rev. E. ■s as chairman of the Gilbert Islands >ion Committee. * * * ie Rev. Mother General of the Sisters he Sacred Heart visited the Order’s don stations in the Gilberts from ice in January. She was accompanied i Sydney by the Mother Provincial of Order in Australia.